Our researchers
Professor Ley Sander
Ley Sander is Professor of Neurology, Head of the Department of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy at UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, Consultant Neurologist at UCLH National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery and Medical Director at Epilepsy Society.
Professor Sanjay M Sisodiya
Sanjay Sisodiya is Professor of Neurology at UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology and Honorary Consultant Neurologist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery and Director of Genomics at Epilepsy Society.
Consultant Neurologist Dr Simona Balestrini
Dr Simona Balestrini is the Muir Maxwell Trust Research Fellow at Epilepsy Society and Honorary Clinical Associate Professor at UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology.
Honorary Consultant in Clinical Genetics Dr Wendy Jones
Wendy Jones is Honorary Consultant Geneticist at the UCLH National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosugery and Chalfont Centre for Epilepsy. She reviews individuals and their families in the Epilepsy Genomics Clinic and carries out genetic counselling.
Doctor Fergus Rugg-Gunn
Dr Fergus Rugg-Gunn is a Consultant Neurologist at Epilepsy Society's Chalfont Centre and The UCLH National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery.
Dr Helena Martins
In her current role as a Bioinformatician Helena is applying computational and statistical methods to analyse complex genomics data in order to understand the genetic architecture of different types of epilepsies.
The Chalfont Centre MRI Team
Professor Matthias Koepp
Matthias Koepp is Professor of Neurology at UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, Consultant Neurologist at the UCLH National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, and Clinical Lead of the MRI-Unit at the Epilepsy Society.
Consultant Neurologist John Duncan
John Duncan is Professor of Neurology at UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, Consultant Neurologist at UCLH and Principal Investigator in Neuroimaging at Epilepsy Society’s Chalfont Centre.
Prinicipal Investigators
• Prof JS Duncan MA DM FRCP FMedSci,
• Prof MJ Koepp MD PhD FRCP,
• Dr M Sidhu MD PhD MRCP,
• Dr B Wandschneider MD PhD
• Dr Gavin Winston PhD FRCP
Radiographers
• Andrea Hill,
• Peter Murkin
Administration
• Xandra Harman
• IT Support
• Jon Steel
Research Nurse
• Ndifreke Atang
MR Physicists and Image analysis
• Sjoerd Vos PhD,
• Slawek Kusmia PhD
• Roman Rodionov PhD
Researchers
• Sarah Buck PhD,
• Vejay Vakharia MS FRCS,
• Kuo Li MD,
• Lorenzo Caciagli MD,
• Marian Galovic MD,
• Ali Alim-Marvasti MA MRCP,
• Baris Kanber PhD,
• Shahrzad Shapoori PhD,
• Lawrence Binding BSc,
• Lukas Franka PhD,
• Daichi Sone MD,
• Fenglai Xiao MD
• Debayan Dasgupta MD
UCL PhD in progress in 2020
Marian Galovic, Ali Alim-Marvasti, Lawrence Binding, Andre van Graan, Fernando Perez-Garcia.
UCL Masters students 2020
Maria Sablik, Arjun Ramaswamy, Sarah Slain, Carolina Ferreira Atuesta, Corey Ratcliffe, Sabahat Iqbal, Jose Leon de Rosas, Annabel Simpson, Meagan Tsaw, Zsofia Varga, Nina Weissman
Our research
Walk around our laboratory
subtitle: 360-degree experience
Take part in our immersive 360-degree experience which takes you on the journey of a genome through our wet laboratory. Our research team will explain what happens to a patient's genome at every stage through video and interactive elements.
Research papers
A lay summary of research recently published in open access journal by staff based at the Chalfont Centre for Epilepsy.